Trash.HOUSE ARREST IN A MOVE CALLED DESTINY BY FRIENDS AND FOES ALIKE, flawless Paul Rodriguez is pro for Girl skateboards with boards to arrive in stores posthaste post·haste adv. With great speed; rapidly. n. Archaic Great speed; rapidity. [From the phrase haste, post, haste, a direction on letters. . Fear not Kareem disciples, as the City Stars are holding strong, with rumors of a new Mike Taylor-led company out of the Mastermind camp and some exciting new acquisitions. The F-Troop added desert hot shoe Leo Romero to the squad after seeing his top-shelf rail moves and willingness to take a pounding. Speaking of abuse magnets, Corey Duffel may have turned pro after being interviewed in every mag short of Cat Fancy. On the cusp of the next big trend, 88 footwear has recruited '80s legend Neil Blender to the team. The notorious recluse (who has spun a 180 recently, making appearances at backyard pool sessions, skateparks and keggers), will be designing a signature shoe--rumored to be a mid-top a la his beloved Air Jordans of yore. Other companies looking for their own '80s legend need only be reminded--Hosoi's getting out in 14 months! Out of LA comes the Memphis Shoe Collection. Their first team pro is the East Coast Ambassador himself, Ricky Oyola. The am slot goes to real-life Memphis transplant and "Playing in Traffic" darling, Phil Kent. The Midwest's reigning underground tech titan, Chad Benson, went pro for Iota (language, specification) Iota - A specification language. ["The Iota Programming System", R. Nakajima er al, Springer 1983]. . STONE ZONE Stoners rejoice! High Times, that canon of squinty eyes and uncontrollable giggling, has finally recognized our sports' finest among its ranks with a story on "Extreme Stoners" and a Stacy Peralta/Tony Alva interview in its latest issue. Jen O'Brien graces the cover (holding a killer bud!! OWW-OWW!) and sporting a tank top that says, get this, no wait! Dude! It's got the military lettering like that show M*A*S*H, but instead, oh dude, you're gonna trip on this! Instead of M*A*S*H it says H*A*S*H! Like you think it's some lame M*A*S*H shirt but then it's like, "Whoah! I get it!" Pretty sweet! You know, like H*A*S*H! Ha-harr! Are any of you guys hungry? Dude! What? The photo of Stacy Peralta awkwardly hugging his board is also a gem. The Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. For most of its career, the group has consisted of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith. have released their most recent example of their recorded infatuation with things DT. The album By the Way features more Dogtown talk and even includes the abstract treatise track "Zephyr Zephyr or Zephyrus: see Eos. ." Between the skate-oriented Anthony Keidis, Mark Ryder and Warner Brothers, act real surprised when the documentary style video directed by some incredibly obvious DT personages is unveiled. LID SERIOUS Ca. Governor Gray Davis recently signed bill SB 994 into effect. As of January 1, 2003 skateparks in the state will have a life-span of five more years. It is expected that nationally the bill's passage will have a pro-park effect as other states follow Cali's lead. Another alarmingly growing trend is the governmental mandate of compulsory safety helmet use. The question here is not whether you think helmets work, or choose to wear or not wear one. The problem is all about politicians who have never skated in their lives legislating viewpoints of how skaters should behave. Are not these crusty legislators the same fools who routinely outlaw skating? Now out in California, the enactment of a mandatory under-18 helmet law looms on the horizon. Such prime time media as LA's Channel 9 are even going out and questioning the veracity of this development. Reporter 9 Angela Hunter has been out interviewing senators, citizens, and skaters alike, When even the mainstream sees a civil liberties violation being perpetrated by "our elected officials," things really stink. PAGES TURNED James O'Mahoney and Scott Starr appear to be fouling the nest of high society yet again. Seems the pair's next rumored exploit involves their highjacking of the oft-celebrated Santa Barbara Film Festival. Somehow, one of their socially-critical motion picture spectacles is believed to be slated as one of the festival's featured presentations. Common assignation ASSIGNATION, Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made. says Scott and James may be paired with celebrated directors John Milius and a guy named Francis Ford Coppola Noun 1. Francis Ford Coppola - United States filmmaker (born in 1939) Coppola . Brooklyn's KCDC KCDC Keewatin Career Development Corporation KCDC Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company KCDC Knoxville's Community Development Corporation KCDC Knox County Development Corporation KCDC Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention skate shop was the place. The release of Jocko Weyland's book The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World was the event. PBR PBR Pre-Budget Report PBR Pabst Blue Ribbon PBR Policy Based Routing PBR Payment by Results (UK hospital funding) PBR Permit by Rule PBR Plant Breeder's Rights PBR Performance Based Ratemaking PBR Partition Boot Record Beer and Grove Press were the sponsors. You know what happened. Lots of humans came. Literary critics from the New York Times, the New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. Daily News, Time, and People drank. Some of them too much. Skaters behaved, while citizens went over-the-top edgy and became unglued un·glued adj. 1. Loosened or separated; unfastened. 2. Informal In confused distress; upset. Idiom: come unglued Informal To lose one's composure. . So did the cops. Watch for an encore performance on the left coast. It was a publicist's dream. The Action Sports Retailer trade show fumbled its way into San Diego, where it encountered a violent opposition amongst skate and surf companies. In general the show was populated by scared corporate clowns who appeared desperate over their immediate employment prospects. With no perceivable skills, these yes-men will soon be attempting to recycle the red rubber noses and clown suits. Comments by ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. personnel were instructive. Queen shot caller Lori Jenks was overheard describing the show as being "the closest thing to the real Mickey Mouse yet." Another ASR type said, "Now the show is balancing the core with the crassly commercial." NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service Richard Novak was lauded by all, because he has participated in every single ASR debacle. The International Association of Skateboard Companies The International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) is a non-profit organization that was established in 1995. It's "goals are to promote skateboarding, increase participation, save its members money, and educate". held meetings and assumed an activist posture. Around the corner at the children's museum the alternative skate show Coup d'Etat operated to enthusiastic, full-capacity crowds of skaters. Brilliance prevailed as Deluxe's Mic-E Reyes and Jim Thiebaud handed out February movement propaganda. The Girl clique did not attend the show, choosing instead to send a post card from camp and a pile of "I Heart ASR" t-shirts. Numerous schlock schlock also shlock Slang n. Something, such as merchandise or literature, that is inferior or shoddy. adj. Of inferior quality; cheap or shoddy. vendors flogged Chinese wood skate decks. Makua cracked a jaw for drill. Daize Shayne headlined at the Fender Guitars booth. Dennis Rodman, Jeff Ho and Black Fly Simon lounged next to a flotilla of lowrider low·rid·er or low-rid·er or low rider n. Chiefly Southwestern U.S. 1. A customized car whose springs have been shortened so that the chassis rides close to the ground, often equipped with hydraulic lifts that can be bikes made by Fat Mark out of the LBC LBC Luton Borough Council LBC Liquid Based Cytology LBC Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation LBC Lancaster Bible College (Pennsylvania) LBC Long Beach California LBC Long Beach City LBC Albanian Airlines . The ASR folks were disturbed by all of these aforementioned acts, especially Rodman and Ho's wheelies through the crowd. But who cares? With luck, none of us will ever see these suckas again. BONE OUT In the realm of revisionistic historical spectacle, anything goes. So when Sports Illustrated for kids staged a Bones Brigade reunion recently, all appeared normal. Guys you would expect to see like Lance Mountain, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Ray Underhill, Adrian Demain, and Tommy Guerrero were in the general vicinity. Alan Gelfand arrived fresh from the exile of his 45' wide ramplex and automotive garage. Obvious individuals inexplicably not present included Stacy Peralta, Ray "Bones" Rodriguez, Steve Saiz, Steve Rocco, and Scott Foss. (Hosoi was detained elsewhere). The evilest thing of all was the up front and central inclusion of one-time Boner Brigadeer, happy Daniel Gesmer, founder of the "skate ballet" dancemovement. Alan Petersen was minding his own biz in the Vagabond VAGABOND. One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordinances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms. Dalloz, Dict. Vagabondage. See Vattel, liv. 1, Sec. 219, n. pool when an MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. film crew arrived and paired Alan up with performer Michelle Branch. You can see this perversity for yourself as Petersen banks while the pop skank skank n. 1. A rhythmic dance performed to reggae or ska music, characterized by bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands. 2. Disgusting or vulgar matter; filth. 3. does whatever it is she does best. LIP SERVICE "We're the customer and they're the vendor. Their product or services have diminished in value. An overhaul of ASR is long overdue." -- Chris Miller "I've got no time for nonsense and meetings. I've only got time for reality and life." -- Greg Carroll "Boardslide, lipslide, whatever! All I know is he's sildin' dog! Slidin' and slidin' and slidin'!" --Al Roker, re: skateboarding FRESH TRACKS Even as we speak the Upland skatepark is being buttoned up. With this resurrection Salba can really go back in time HALL OF MEAT The Devil's Ditch in Atlanta lived up to its name on John Paul Floyd's face exfoliation exfoliation /ex·fo·li·a·tion/ (eks-fo?le-a´shun) 1. a falling off in scales or layers. 2. the removal of scales or flakes from the surface of the skin. 3. Skating in the dark has its perils. This one just kept getting bigger and bigger. John Bickford Posers: Chuck D and Karia Roos Crime: Trophy wife Punishment: The suburbs DOWN FOR LIFE If Miami's Dan Hutchinson is a vert skater, no knee pads could lead to some serious structural reevaluation of his video game box tat FLYIN' SALAMI Harold Hunter does his best David Copperfield imitation at the ASR Long Jump Challenge |
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